I think you'll find that the cold war was "won" by a country, not an ideology. It's also more capitalism versus totalitarianism that was tested in the cold war, not Democracy versus Communism.
Every time the state puts lights on train crossings and insists on a reasonable standard of education for citizens, it's deciding what's best for citizens and ignoring personal choice. Not all state intervention in people's lives is bad (the state will intervene on my choice to drive without a licence, and that's a *good* thing).
As it happens, I agree that the kind of filtering proposed here is utterly stupid, but it doesn't follow that states shouldn't restrict what citizens can do.
The Atari ST sucked hairy balls. The only thing it had over the Amiga was a midi port built in (I added a midi port to my Amiga for 35 bucks NZ, which was like, 50c US, or something)
Every time I read an article about the Amiga, I get all misty eyed. C= managment need a special place in purgatory all of their own!
I can't help but think that the world would be a much better place if the Amiga had been sensibly managed. The Amiga user community was really great - much like the Linux community in many ways.
Domestic temperature gauges are *not* the only input into global warming predictions. One of the major issues causing concern is melting of the polar ice caps, and that doesn't have much to do with how temperature around aerodromes was recorded.
You are a moron. I can't believe anyone modded that "Informative".
Just HOW DUMB do you think climate scientists are? Do you think that airport temperature sensors are the only inputs that scientists look at when examining global weather changes?
Christ, that's the stupidest thing I've read in a very long time.
The developers of Runescape and Blizzard have slightly different levels of resourcing. Is it possible, do you think, that that might JUST MAYBE have a little bit to do with the difference in the comparison?
Yeah, I agree, it's less the language so much, more the API and the community (and I include corporates in that community, because they cooperate on standards even if they compete on implementations)
I had exactly the same experience as the grandparent poster. The design issue comes in the APIs. The Java APIs are better designed and more complete. When I started programming in C#, I had to write my own table class as there wasn't one in.NET at all (there was a data table which works only with databases, but that was not generic enough to repurpose)
The other thing about the.NET apis is the same problem that Delphi suffered from: the APIs are not all created equal - some are.NET elements, some are thin veneers over system calls. Sometimes you'll get a stack trace on exception, sometimes you won't, sometimes the API is clearly ".NET aware" sometimes it's clearly some crufty relic from some earlier layer of MS silt.
Those definitions are both positions of belief, not positions of 'unbelief.' Not really. The belief that agnosticism is "meta" belief - belief about belief, so to speak. Theism or Atheism involves belief or non belief in a deity, agnosticism is a belief that it's not possible or reasonable to form those kinds of belief.
I still think these dictionaries use a poor definition of the word atheist. Well, I think that if the Oxford dictionary and Websters both disagree with you, then it's you who is wrong and not the dictionaries. If you want to express something else, use a different term. It sounds to me that "agnostic" is probably the term you should be using.
Yeah, I agree. "Lack of faith" sounds like there's something wrong with you, like you're defective in some way. You're right to notice the nuances of the language - the manner is which people frame arguments often shows a lot of insight into how they think and your observation about lacking faith is spot on in that regard:o)
I think religious people really need to say why they have faith in any particular thing. Faith itself is unassailable, but as someone else pointed out - you can have faith in the Invisible Purple Flying Unicorn, and it's in the same class (proof-wise) as belief in God. Describing why one of those beliefs is better supported than the other is a tricky thing to do:o)
I understand you giving up with the subject - arguing religion is often frustrating. I find it more fruitful to look at HOW people justify their beliefs, rather than what their beliefs are.
I agree with what you say about the word "regulated", but I don't agree that "militia" meant "the entire body of the people capable of bearing arms". If they meant "everyone", there would be no need to use qualifying terms such as "well regulated" and indeed "militia" instead of "the people" - both of those previous terms narrow the concept from everyone to a specific group of people. In fact, if the 2nd amendment was supposed to allow guns for everyone, the whole first part would be redundant.
I read the second amendment as saying that gun ownership cannot be interfered with by the US federal government insofar as that gun ownership is a requirement for states to organise their own militias for their own self defense. But, that's not the same as saying that every tom dick and harry can carry a gun: I'd also argue that by implication the 2nd amendment allows the federal government to insist that only members of organised state militias can have guns and that those weapons be the kind that would aid in defense of the state (e.g.: rifles, not handguns)
Oh, and if we're comparing languages as if that establishes credibility, then I've programmed in Java, C#, C, C++, D, Delphi, LISP (including writing my own interpreter for it), Python, Perl, Groovy, Pascal, Ada, JavaScript, BASIC (many forms: QBasic, AMOS, ABasic etc...), M68k assembler and E. Not to mention shell scripting. Does that make my opinion right now?
And YOUR sig...you've OBVIOUSLY never used.NET and are merely trying to dis microsoft as is popular on slashdot. This coming from someone who knows C#, VB.NET, AND java (along with a myriad of other languages)..NET may be owned by microsoft, but a bad concept it is not.
Actually, I *have* used.NET thank you very much. I know C# quite well and was gainfully employed writing software in it for some time.
I'm dissing.NET because I hate Microsoft, not because/. hates Microsoft. I also happen to think that Java actually *is* better than C#/.NET.
...and the "why java is better than.NET" site is a polemic. It's funny. Laugh. I mean, at least 100 of those are true:o)
Websters also agrees with the Oxford dictionary. I'd claim that between them, they constitute as good an authority on meaning as your likely to get.
Absence of belief is "agnosticism" -
Websters: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
Oxford: a person who believes that nothing can be known concerning the existence of God.
You see, there are perfectly good words for what you want to say, you're just using the wrong ones:o)
Yes! I quite endorse that approach. Unfortunately, those in the throes of faith aren't swayed by that kind of logic either, but it makes the silliness of faith all the more obvious to the rest of us.
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I think you'll find that the cold war was "won" by a country, not an ideology. It's also more capitalism versus totalitarianism that was tested in the cold war, not Democracy versus Communism.
Every time the state puts lights on train crossings and insists on a reasonable standard of education for citizens, it's deciding what's best for citizens and ignoring personal choice. Not all state intervention in people's lives is bad (the state will intervene on my choice to drive without a licence, and that's a *good* thing).
As it happens, I agree that the kind of filtering proposed here is utterly stupid, but it doesn't follow that states shouldn't restrict what citizens can do.
Hmph! Worms was written by Team 17, not Microprose. It was originally an Amiga game.
I agree that XCom rocked, thou. One of the best games of all time. MechWarrior is DESPERATELY needing a new PC incarnation as well.
The Atari ST sucked hairy balls. The only thing it had over the Amiga was a midi port built in (I added a midi port to my Amiga for 35 bucks NZ, which was like, 50c US, or something)
Every time I read an article about the Amiga, I get all misty eyed. C= managment need a special place in purgatory all of their own!
I can't help but think that the world would be a much better place if the Amiga had been sensibly managed. The Amiga user community was really great - much like the Linux community in many ways.
I can't believe that you were modded insightful for that.
Fact: programmers make mistakes.
Fact: systems that protect against programmer mistakes have less mistakes in them.
I believe that you are underestimating how science works to a huge degree. Being critical includes being critical of your sources.
Domestic temperature gauges are *not* the only input into global warming predictions. One of the major issues causing concern is melting of the polar ice caps, and that doesn't have much to do with how temperature around aerodromes was recorded.
actually, Iraq was free of terrorists before the US went in. You had to pay to make the terrorists.
You are a moron. I can't believe anyone modded that "Informative".
Just HOW DUMB do you think climate scientists are? Do you think that airport temperature sensors are the only inputs that scientists look at when examining global weather changes?
Christ, that's the stupidest thing I've read in a very long time.
The developers of Runescape and Blizzard have slightly different levels of resourcing. Is it possible, do you think, that that might JUST MAYBE have a little bit to do with the difference in the comparison?
In addition, Runescape is WAY older than WOW.
Java is not slow. And if you're writing a game, you'll use the hardware for the 3D rendering anyway.
None of that is required to work with OpenGL in Java, of course.
Like this: http://product.thinkfree.com/ ??
Yeah, I agree, it's less the language so much, more the API and the community (and I include corporates in that community, because they cooperate on standards even if they compete on implementations)
I had exactly the same experience as the grandparent poster. The design issue comes in the APIs. The Java APIs are better designed and more complete. When I started programming in C#, I had to write my own table class as there wasn't one in .NET at all (there was a data table which works only with databases, but that was not generic enough to repurpose)
.NET apis is the same problem that Delphi suffered from: the APIs are not all created equal - some are .NET elements, some are thin veneers over system calls. Sometimes you'll get a stack trace on exception, sometimes you won't, sometimes the API is clearly ".NET aware" sometimes it's clearly some crufty relic from some earlier layer of MS silt.
The other thing about the
Yeah, I agree. "Lack of faith" sounds like there's something wrong with you, like you're defective in some way. You're right to notice the nuances of the language - the manner is which people frame arguments often shows a lot of insight into how they think and your observation about lacking faith is spot on in that regard :o)
:o)
I think religious people really need to say why they have faith in any particular thing. Faith itself is unassailable, but as someone else pointed out - you can have faith in the Invisible Purple Flying Unicorn, and it's in the same class (proof-wise) as belief in God. Describing why one of those beliefs is better supported than the other is a tricky thing to do
I understand you giving up with the subject - arguing religion is often frustrating. I find it more fruitful to look at HOW people justify their beliefs, rather than what their beliefs are.
OK, fair enough.
I agree with what you say about the word "regulated", but I don't agree that "militia" meant "the entire body of the people capable of bearing arms". If they meant "everyone", there would be no need to use qualifying terms such as "well regulated" and indeed "militia" instead of "the people" - both of those previous terms narrow the concept from everyone to a specific group of people. In fact, if the 2nd amendment was supposed to allow guns for everyone, the whole first part would be redundant.
I read the second amendment as saying that gun ownership cannot be interfered with by the US federal government insofar as that gun ownership is a requirement for states to organise their own militias for their own self defense. But, that's not the same as saying that every tom dick and harry can carry a gun: I'd also argue that by implication the 2nd amendment allows the federal government to insist that only members of organised state militias can have guns and that those weapons be the kind that would aid in defense of the state (e.g.: rifles, not handguns)
Oh, and if we're comparing languages as if that establishes credibility, then I've programmed in Java, C#, C, C++, D, Delphi, LISP (including writing my own interpreter for it), Python, Perl, Groovy, Pascal, Ada, JavaScript, BASIC (many forms: QBasic, AMOS, ABasic etc...), M68k assembler and E. Not to mention shell scripting. Does that make my opinion right now?
Actually, I *have* used
I'm dissing
Websters also agrees with the Oxford dictionary. I'd claim that between them, they constitute as good an authority on meaning as your likely to get.
:o)
Absence of belief is "agnosticism" -
Websters: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
Oxford: a person who believes that nothing can be known concerning the existence of God.
You see, there are perfectly good words for what you want to say, you're just using the wrong ones
Curses! There's another one! :o)
Your .sig started this, not me :o)
That is one interpretation of time, but it's not the only one.
Yes! I quite endorse that approach. Unfortunately, those in the throes of faith aren't swayed by that kind of logic either, but it makes the silliness of faith all the more obvious to the rest of us.